Question

I have an issue with associating a keypress to a QAction. I’m mapping Enter to an action like this:

myAction->setShortcut(Qt::Key_Return);

The problem is that the QAction is also triggered when I type a value in a QSpinBox and then press Enter. I was expecting the spinbox to consume the event (so it’s not caught by the mainwindow) but it’s not working like that.

I’ve seen that I can add a context to my shortcut, I tried all values but this does not solve my issue.

@Matthew It is indeed rejecting the event:

case Qt::Key_Enter:
case Qt::Key_Return:
    d->edit->d_func()->control->clearUndo();
    d->interpret(d->keyboardTracking ? AlwaysEmit : EmitIfChanged);
    selectAll();
    event->ignore();
    emit editingFinished();
    return;

I find this behavior quite strange.

Answer 1

From my knowledge the QSpinBox default behavior does wait until you press return to accept the value. Technically the value is set/accepted as soon as you change it.

If you’re looking to change that behaviour, i.e. when you hit return on your QSpinBox you the value is actually set/accepted, then you will most likely have to handle the associated key press event yourself on the QSpinBox and mark it as accepted (i.e. event->accepted() ).

Otherwise, this sounds like it is working as originally designed although not as you want.